http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/intimidation/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:44:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418370/posts A federal appeals court reaffirmed its ruling Wednesday that allowed sponsors of California's ban on same-sex marriage to withhold campaign strategy documents from gay rights advocates who are seeking to overturn the ballot measure. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Dec. 11 had overturned a judge's order to produce the documents, ruling 3-0 that their disclosure might discourage participation in future campaigns and inhibit strategists from speaking candidly. . . . Proposition 8, amended the California Constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, overturning a May 2008 state Supreme... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418370/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:44:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416027/posts Veteran Civil Rights Division attorney Christopher Coates is no longer chief of the Voting Section, according to the division’s Web site. There was no official announcement of the personnel change in the long-troubled section, which most recently has been embroiled in the controversy over the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. Main Justice noticed the change on the Voting Section Web site. Taking over for Coates in an acting role is Chris Herren, a deputy chief of the section, according to the Web site. Alejandro Miyar, a spokesman for the Civil Rights Division, wasn’t available for comment Sunday. Coates... MainJustice.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416027/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:42:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411224/posts Rep. Frank Wolf, R.-Va., issued a public statement Thursday saying that President Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, has instructed staff attorneys to ignore legal subpoenas by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission (CRC) requesting information about the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. This is in stark contrast to Mr. Obama’s pledge for transparency in government. “We understand that the attorney general has instructed his department to ignore ... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411224/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:37:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409170/posts Politics: If the Democrats' stitched-together Frankenstein monster of health care reform gets the 60 votes to get through the Senate, it will have been done through an assortment of bribes and brass knuckles. (snip) Sen. Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, has also been critical of the buy-in and public option, but he has an additional issue about whatever comes out of the Senate not involving public funding of abortion in any way. Michael Goldfarb on the Weekly Standard blog quotes a Senate aide as saying the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base on the... Investor's Business daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409170/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:29:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409456/posts Here is video of Michael Goldfarb, of The Weekly Standard, talking with Glenn Beck yesterday about a source who told him that President Obama's team has threatened Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska to get him to support the Senate Health Care Bill. Goldfarb said a source told him they threatened to put Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska on the Base closing review list if Nelson does not support ObamaCare. Twenty GOP Senators are now reportedly calling for an investigation into the threat. Goldfarb says it is not a credible threat, and shows the White House does not even... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409456/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:28:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409192/posts Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., and 19 other GOP senators today called for a hearing into reports that the Obama administration used the future of Offutt Air Force Base as bargaining chip in the health care debate, according to a press release by Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., has flatly denied that Offutt came up in connection with the health care bill or any other piece of legislation. The White House also has described those reports as "absurd." The group of Republican senators called for a hearing in a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin,... Omaha World-Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409192/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:59:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408318/posts Quite an explosive leak! I wonder how this will affect things? It is certainly a thuggish and dangerous thing for Obama to play with National Security over this craptacular idea of socialized medicine. Quite a desperate move. According to a Senate aide, the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if Nelson doesn’t fall into line. Offutt Air Force Base employs some 10,000 military and federal employees in Southeastern Nebraska. As our source put it, this is a “naked effort by Rahm Emanuel and the White House to extort Nelson’s vote.”... stoptheaclu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408318/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:07:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381458/posts Details here. So this is what it has come to -- this is the fruit of the long-term efforts by groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and others, to stigmatize and demonize everyone who speaks honestly about the threat of jihad and Islamic supremacism. People are afraid to speak up about what they see, when they know it is wrong. And all it cost this week was 13 dead and 38 wounded. jihadwatch.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381458/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:47:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2379298/posts Last night, by a comfortable margin of 53-47%, the citizens of Maine became the 31st state to vote down gay marriage (as has every single state that has given its citizens a chance to vote on the issue). Not surprisingly, the mainstream liberal press is beside itself with frustration, especially because it drives yet another nail in the "inevitability" and "wrong side of history" arguments we are often fed. As I wrote on National Review this morning, Maine voted for traditional marriage "despite it being a liberal state, despite a 2-1 funding disadvantage, despite aggressive legal action against traditional-marriage... American Papist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2379298/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:08:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378993/posts President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and their Democratic followers in Congress have a rather draconian message for the private sector: Speak now, and we'll make you forever hold your peace. Up until a few weeks ago, America's health insurers were sheepishly on board with the Obama-Pelosi health care reform plan. Perhaps the industry feared that voicing any concern about the plan would unleash the ire of an increasingly rabid Democratic majority on Capitol Hill. As it turns out, the health insurers were right. The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378993/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:06:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378528/posts  If you are the Democrat party of New Jersey and it looks like you may lose the Governors office to a 500 pound fat guy (Jon Corzine's words, not mine), what do you do? After all, even the great One, Obama himself, could not seem to turn the tide that was ready to hit them from the Republican Party and it's candidate, Christie. Well, we have documented the story after story about intimidation tactics used by the left in this country, but what the Democrats did in this election has even left some liberals scratching their heads. Imagine you are... Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378528/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:20:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378479/posts PORTLAND, Maine — Voters on Tuesday repealed the state’s same sex marriage law after an emotionally charged campaign that drew large numbers to the polls and focused national attention on Maine. In a defiant speech to several hundred lingering supporters, No on 1 campaign manager Jesse Connolly pledged that his side “will not quit until we know where every single one of these votes lives.” Bangor Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378479/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:25:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377726/posts A Hoffman staffer tells NRO that a Hoffman supporter had his tires slashed this afternoon near United Methodist Church on Beakman Street in Plattsburgh. A police report has been filed. National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377726/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:15:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377620/posts Abstract: Supporters of Proposition 8 in California have been subjected to harassment, intimidation, vandalism, racial scapegoating, blacklisting, loss of employment, economic hardships, angry protests, violence, at least one death threat, and gross expressions of anti-religious bigotry. Arguments for same-sex marriage are based fundamentally on the idea that limiting marriage to the union of husband and wife is a form of bigotry, irrational prejudice, and even hatred against homosexual persons. As this ideology seeps into the culture more generally, individuals and institutions that support marriage as the union of husband and wife risk paying a price for that belief in many... The Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377620/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2377607/posts A think tank has compiled and analyzed reports of the harassment, intimidation, and “gross expressions of anti-religious bigotry” shown in reaction to the successful passage of Proposition 8. If partisans of marriage redefinition continue to increase in power, the analysis warns, those who seek the preservation of marriage as a union of man and wife may risk paying a price legally, socially and economically. The Heritage Foundation’s Oct. 22 report “The Price of Prop 8,” authored by researcher Thomas M. Messner, said that many individuals and institutions who defend the nature of marriage as a union between a man and... EWTN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2377607/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:13:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377601/posts Here's the youtube of the woman talking about what happened: Link to youtubeHere's the story: http://patdollard.com/2009/11/nj-democrat-party-hires-gangbangers-for-voter-influence-campaign-with-video/ November 3, 2009 by EJ How would you like to be a New Jersey police officer and look out your window and see several known criminals, including a man you arrested several weeks ago and another who had just been released from prison for shooting a cop? And then find out that the men were sent into the neighborhood by the Democratic Party for GOTV operations - complete with lists of voters names, addresses and phones numbers! That is what happened Sunday on a... Pat Dollard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377601/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:08:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375897/posts SEATTLE Conservatives here, a droll minority, say that under this city's quota system, when a conservative enters the city, one already here is required to leave. They also say that Washington is actually two states: There is what you can see from atop this city's Space Needle -- meaning, this liberal city -- and there is everything else, extending to the Oregon, Idaho and Canadian borders. On Tuesday, Washington residents will vote in a referendum that has national significance because of a controversy about disclosing the names and addresses of those who signed petitions to trigger the referendum. Disclosure threatens... washingtonpost. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375897/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:16:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373692/posts An intern for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was ejected Wednesday from a conference held at the US Capitol Visitors Center Congressional Auditorium after behaving in a threatening manner and repeatedly violating conference rules by attempting to record conference speakers who have been the subject of death threats by Muslims. The CAIR official, Iyad Awadallah of Boca Raton, Florida, was ejected from the conference and escorted from the premises by Capitol Hill police. Awadallah showed up at the International Legal Conference on Freedom of Speech and Religion sponsored by the International Free Press Society and the Liberty Legal Project... Jawa Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373692/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:40:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370033/posts It's pretty unremarkable to describe the Obama White House's growing enemies list -- the insurance companies, Chamber of Commerce, Fox News -- as "Nixonian." But there's one place where, if you venture such an opinion, you'd better be prepared to apologize -- quickly and profusely. On National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" Wednesday, NPR political editor Ken Rudin said the White House campaign against Fox News is a bad idea. "It's not only aggressive, it's almost Nixonesque," Rudin said. "I mean, you think of what Nixon and Agnew did with their enemies list and their attacks on the media;... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370033/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:00:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2369191/posts Arguments go back and forth about whether or not the Obama administration is really "socialist" in the sense that they wish to control the means of production, takeover all businesses, and put the "people" (unions) in charge. Wherever you come down on this issue, there is no denying the straight line from Obama's Chicago roots and ways of getting things done to the White House. I wrote about it a while back when Chrysler dealers were being closed down, in a post I called "Not Socialism: Gangsterism:" "It can happen because we are barking up the wrong tree when we... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2369191/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:51:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365159/posts Mafioso, Goon Squad, Communist, Nazi, Jihadi, Democrat politics as usual--whatever you want to call the thuggish tactics of the Obama administration, the very public threats they are making to the news media to not follow the lead of Fox News in questioning Obama's policies and personnel is a direct threat to the freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment.This morning on the Sunday talk shows, speaking on behalf of President Barack Obama, senior Obama advisers David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel carried on the war initiated by White House communictions director Anita Dunn last week on CNN.Axelrod appeared on ABC News' This... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365159/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:24:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110999/posts Want a preview of what an Obama Department of Justice would look like? Look no further than Obama for America General Counsel Bob Bauer’s letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey from last Friday. Bauer wants the Special Prosecutor investigating the U.S. Attorney firings to start investigating John McCain, Sarah Palin, and other Republicans including Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Their crime? Calling on our nation’s law enforcement officers to investigate wide spread reports of voter fraud. Bauer writes:As Election Day approaches - just as in 2004 and 2006 - Republican Party officials and operatives nationwide, including... Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110999/posts#comment Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:00:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349402/posts Friday afternoon was supposed to be a big day for America’s Muslims. For months they planned to rally in Washington before their “big” day. They would meet on the lawn in front of the Capitol building. Naturally the media took dictation from the organizers and dutifully reported “It was estimated that the nation’s capital hosted some 50,000 Muslims for a traditional Friday prayer ritual.” “Our time has come.” Organizers billed it as a gathering of moderate Muslims coming together for a “Day of Islamic Unity” to “inspire a new generation of Muslims.” The said “our time has come.” So how... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349402/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:20:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348418/posts The ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee is demanding answers from the government agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid after it ordered a private health insurance company to stop informing its enrollees about looming Medicare cuts under President Obama's healthcare plan. In a letter last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) informed Humana that it had launched an investigation of the health insurance company's marketing practices. CMS has also ordered Humana to stop telling its enrollees that President Obama's proposed healthcare plan could lower their Medicare Advantage benefits. Medicare Advantage plans are private plans... One News Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348418/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:25:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344982/posts The government is investigating a major insurance company for allegedly trying to scare seniors with a mailer warning they could lose important benefits under health care legislation in Congress. The Health and Human Services Department launched its investigation of Humana after getting a complaint from Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., a senior lawmaker usually viewed as a reliable ally of the insurance industry. "It is wholly unacceptable for insurance companies to mislead seniors regarding any subject — particularly on a subject as important to them, and to the nation, as health care reform," Baucus said Monday, disclosing the HHS investigation. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344982/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:45:35 GMT